Logan can hear his friend Jim in the parking lot, fighting the officers like he fights everybody, every day. The shouting rips apart the peace of the night. Once Logan steps across the threshold of the motel room - and sees a trail of crimson footprints - he knows that his life is out of control.

None of this day seems real. It must be a dream, he decides - a nightmare. This cannot be happening to him. Not to Logan Kossowicz, the violinist, the boy with a future, who was supposed to be heading to Julliard on a full scholarship. After years of waiting, he was finally going to leave...